Ancient China · Statesman

Zhang Yi 張儀

Attested BC 316 - BC 311

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhang Yi was a statesman.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 316 to BC 311 始張儀西并巴蜀之地
Strongly inferred · Records of the Grand Historian 71, passage 71

Places and affiliations

Polity Qin 秦 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 71, passage 71

Events and relationships

Expanded Qin
BC 316 to BC 311 始張儀西并巴蜀之地 · Military · Commander · At Bashu, west of the Yellow River, Shangyong 巴蜀、西河之外、上庸 · Mode quotation Speaker Gan Mao (甘茂)
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 71, passage 71

Assessments and attributes

Assessment the world credited the former king rather than Master Zhang · Mode quotation Speaker Gan Mao (甘茂)
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 71, passage 71

References in the histories

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 71Biographies of Shu Lizi and Gan Mao · 1 passage

始張儀西并巴蜀之地，北開西河之外，南取上庸，天下不以多張子而以賢先王。 At first Zhang Yi merged the lands of Bashu to the west, opened the territories north of the Yellow River, and seized Shangyong to the south. The world did not credit Master Zhang with the abundance of these gains but regarded the former king as worthy.